Happiness is limping in the rain, but it's moving.

[st_aurafina]

1. It's raining like the dickens out here. Sideways rain. Sheets of water on the road. Bluster and wuthering and thunder and hail. All the cracks in the lawn are gone, where it had shrunk away from the curb has all filled in again. I look forward to a month or two of mud, and farmers finally complaining that the rain had better stop.

2. I'm limping because my knee injury flared up this morning, to the point of needing maximum OTC painkillers, and not being able to walk without a limp. Not sure why - weather? Overdoing it with the personal trainer? But I'm looking after it in a much better way than when I originally injured it - I have a tendency to freeze up and protect the part that hurts, which leads to more tension and stiffness and pain. This time, I'm icing it, and keeping moving even if I'm awkward and clumsy, and I'm stretching. Stretching is honestly the best thing I learned from the original injury. It's so important for me!

3. We made bread for lunch tomorrow, an awesome recipe that has become a favourite: Honey Sunflower Bread. Thanks, vass, for putting me onto this blog - so many good recipes there.

4. It's going to be a king tide at our house this weekend. Our cycles aren't in sync, so it doesn't happen very often, but when it does, we cook lots of meat! We're slow cooking a leg of lamb this weekend, which we will then fall upon like savages and devour.

5. Speaking of carnivores, our Hannibal rewatch reached the second last episodes tonight. Ack, so tense. So nearly there, and then I can talk about it with lilacsigil who is seeing it for the first time. *clutches self*

Comments

[lonelywalker]

*wraps a blanket around Will to keep him safe*
By the way, if you like recaps, I highly recommend cleolinda's posts, which are both thorough and hilarious (I particularly like the fact that the show assumes all parts of the USA are a 30-minute drive from everywhere else).

[st_aurafina]

Cleolinda is the best! I love her recaps, she pulls so much juicy detail together.

Mmm, juicy, like tender meats.

[clare_dragonfly]

Ooh, that bread looks and sound delicious. I am going to have to try that in my bread machine. (Yes, I am lazy. And, y'know, I have a bread machine, so might as well use it. Especially since I am unlikely to make bread if I have to wait for rising and everything.)

I really want to watch Hannibal but I missed the first few episodes... my family will probably get Netflix eventually. We did get an internet-capable TV recently. Unless you know of a free-and-legal way for me to watch it online?

[st_aurafina]

I make mine in the kitchenaid with the dough hook - I do not judge the bread machine people in the slightest! (I actually like the kneading process, but ow, my wrists.)

I don't know a free and LEGAL way, sorry. We don't have any sort of netflix equivalent here, unfortunately, or I'd be right into that.

[entwashian]

I am not even sure I remember what rain is like at this point. XD

Hope your knee feels better soon!

[st_aurafina]

Let me remind you: rain, wet, nice, cold! (Please remind me in February!)

Knee is not worse this morning. Maybe better?

[shehasathree]

1. lol at 'King Tide'. :D
2. Go team you for doing the good stuff for your sore knee. Hope it's on the mend again soon.
3. Wooh, Hannibal!
That is all.

[st_aurafina]

We do what we can to make this special time less miserable than it has to be!

My knee is no worse! And maybe a little better? I've got swimming tomorrow morning, and physio in the afternoon, so that should help, too.

Oh, man, Hannibal is intense.

[lark_ascends]

Ouch on the knee!

That bread sounds yummy... and that blog post puts it in a way that even I think I could follow the recipe!!

[st_aurafina]

It's a great recipe - and Budget Bytes always has great step-by-step instructions. It's a good blog for that.

[lark_ascends]

I've found a number of nice looking recipes!